Dallas attorney Jamey Newberg has been covering the Texas Rangers, from the big club down through the entire farm system, since 1998. His website can be found at www.newbergreport.com.

Preliminary auction/raffle details for Newberg Report Night.

Details are still coming together, but I wanted to get an update out on the auction and raffle for our eighth annual Newberg Report Night, on Sunday the 24th. We’ve had a bunch of cool things donated by many of you since the announcement that this year’s charitable contribution from the event, including 100 percent of the proceeds from the auction and raffle, will go to the Shannon Stone Family via the memorial account set up by the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation.

First, I’ve had dozens of emails asking the question, so let me go ahead and answer it here: You have to be at the event to buy raffle tickets or bid on auction items. It’s a benefit of attendance. There’s no perfect solution – if you aren’t attending I would encourage you to contribute to the Stone Family at the Ballpark or online or at PlainsCapital Bank locations across the Metroplex (details on all of this available at this Rangers website link) – but to be fair to those who paid to attend our event, we’re giving them the exclusive opportunity to participate in the raffle and auction. Hope that makes sense.

That said, even though the pregame events (including the Q&A sessions with Kevin Goldstein and Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus and with Rangers GM Jon Daniels) are closed, if you’re interested in sitting with the Newberg Report group during the game, tickets are available for $100 if you want to watch from a luxury suite, or $15 if you want to sit in the Upper Reserved sections we’ll be in. We’ll close sales of those tickets Friday so we can get final numbers to the Rangers.

When we have final details, I’ll identify who donated these items to the effort. Uplifting stuff.

And a reminder: Brian Maines of Johnny Velvet Tees and I are donating 100 percent of the proceeds on all Newberg Report T-Shirts this week to the Rangers Foundation’s memorial account in honor of Shannon Stone. The shirts come in blue or pink, and in nine sizes. You can check them out and order them here.

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